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A child's hand, with a football transfer on it, carefully shapes a bit of clay onto the slab Blog posts

Machine parts and moulds

Today’s sessions were all about model making and creating moulds, both in plaster, using the clay discs created by the children last week, and new moulds for casting at the next session.

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A monochrome photo of a football team and a clay disc with figure of footballer with arms crossed. A pair of hands bottom left corner fashions clay to add detail and a white stick and small metal shell shape lie to one side Blog posts

Production lines and football sides – it’s all team work

Sculptor Ellie Rodwell and the Extra Time players explore the notion of teamwork, as experienced on production lines and in football teams.

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Layers of history Blog posts

Layers of history

The Extra Time adult team use old photographs of Leiston Works football teams to produce a beautiful series of cyanotypes.

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Two school girls, one in a purple and the other in a white T shirt have submerged sheets of A4 paper into shallow trays of water and are washing them as the picture emerges in the light sensitive blue paper Blog posts

Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

The Extra Time teams examine some old blue prints at Leiston Long Shop and then create their own.

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A collaged trophy reading #1 Art Prize Blog posts

Double elephants and laundromats

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A school girl with long dark hair and wearing dark-rimmed glasses points to a life-sized figure of a WWI munitionette propped up against a white-washed brick wall Blog posts

Match of the Day

The children return to the Long Shop Museum, to match the workers with the players and create their own Extra Time football game

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Four school girls and a member of staff, three seated with two standing behind, with arms in the air and looking joyful Blog posts

Extra Time wins in Leiston

The Extra Time team at Leiston Primary School listen to a story about creating a football pitch, recorded in 1985, and examine newspapers going back to the beginning of the last century. Then they take a glorious walk past the allotments to visit Leiston Long Shop Museum.

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School children dressed in black leggings and blue tops hold their arms up in the air. Behind them is an adult in an orange top, with her mouth open and her tongue out. There's a row of large windows behind them and they appear to be in a hall of some sort Blog posts

Football moves and factory spaces – Extra Time kicks off in Leiston

The opening session at Leiston Primary school gave us the opportunity to meet the children and find out why they wanted to take part in Extra Time. It also gave the children a chance to meet us, in particular Hatty our theatre-maker, who soon had the children being football pitches and making factories.

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